Secrets leaker Edward Snowden rocked the espionage world this week when he divulged a series of PowerPoint slides from the National Security Agency that showed the U.S. was gathering the phone, email and other records of hundreds of millions of its citizens. Only five slides have so far been released out of out of the 41-slide presentation, only five slides have been released so far by the Guardian and The Washington Post. The other 36 were deemed too explosive to reveal. But what do those five slides show? The National Post’s Kyla Garvey talked to Wesley Wark, University of Ottawa professor and leading expert on national security, intelligence and terrorism; Richard Seamon, law professor at the University of Idaho, and Matthew Green,assistant research professor at John Hopkins Information Security Institute who specializes in privacy-enhanced information storage and cryptography.

Officials in the North African nation have concluded that Israel fitted a vulture with a GPS chip and solar-powered equipment that can take reconnaisance pictures from a bird’s eye view, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, which cited Egypt’s El Balad website